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Tuesday, 24th February 2009

Google Announces Pricing for App Engine: Allows Developers to Scale Beyond Free Quotas

Google today finally announced its pricing plans for its App Engine service. Google's App Engine allows developers to run their web applications on Google's infrastructure and, until today, was only available in a free, but restricted, version. The free version currently gives developers up to 500MB of persistent storage and CPU power and bandwidth…

Frederic Lardinois comments

Apple Releases Safari 4 Beta: Faster, Prettier, and Easier to Use

Apple today released the first public beta of Safari 4, which sports a redesigned interface that resembles Google's Chrome, as well as support for all of the major Internet standards, and a large range of new and enhanced features. Among these new features are a reimagined start page with a speed-dial interface similar to what Opera and Chrome…

Frederic Lardinois comments

Gmail Give Millions An Unexpected Holiday

Gmail was down for so long last night that Google felt compelled to apologize this morning. Google's online apps are unavailable for short periods of time often enough for it to be unsurprising, but the length of this outage (2 hours plus) was quite remarkable. What do you do when you're left waiting for a meeting or a lunch? If you're like…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Monday, 23rd February 2009

The Future of Touch

It's tempting to give Apple's iPhone credit for the birth of touch-based computing, but it was not the first touchscreen user interface - nor is it the only one in existence today. Long before the iPhone, touchscreen LCDs were common, as were touch smartphones from Palm, Sony Ericsson, HTC, and others. In addition, back in 2001 - long before the…

Sarah Perez comments

Bad News for OpenID: People Still Using Same Password Everywhere

A new survey from Gartner Research delivers some bad news regarding our online security practices: two-thirds of U.S. consumers use the same one or two passwords for all the websites they access. And they like it that way. Although people claim they're concerned about security, they still tend to use unsafe password management techniques rather…

Social Sarah Perez comments

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